LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verbthird-declension one-termination participle

distāns

distāns (genitive distantis)

Meaning

  1. one terminationparticiplestanding apart
  2. one terminationparticiplebeing distant

Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.

dīstāns ntis, adj.
P. of disto.—In space, remote, far apart, far away, distant : tam distantibus in locis: spatio distante, O.: legio mille passuum intervallo, at a distance , L.: loco ripae, O.: trabes inter se binos pedes, Cs.—Fig., different, unlike, remote : a severitate comitas: exactis minimum distantia, H.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Latindistāns

Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Latin stō Latin distō Latin distāns Present participle of distō.

In English words that came into English from distāns

  • distancedistantia
  • distantdistāns
  • equidistantaequidistantem

Quick answers

What does distāns mean in Latin?
distāns, a verb, means “standing apart; being distant”.
What are the principal parts of distāns?
distāns, distantis (third-declension one-termination participle).
Where does distāns come from?
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ → Latin distāns.
Which English words come from distāns?
English words that go back to Latin distāns include distant, distance and equidistant.